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BIS TDWG Conference, New Orleans, 2011
GBIF and Genomic Data
Éamonn Ó Tuama
Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA)
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
19 October 2011
GBIF data portal
http://data.gbif.org/
Total occurrences: 27 270
Georeferenced: 26 351
Total occurrences: 1 600 164
Georeferenced: 1 392 211
GBIF and Genomic Data
- complement, not duplicate work
- GBIF as top-level gateway to
discovery, access
http://links.gbif.org/sp2012_2016.pdf
GBIF Activities
RfP for position paper
on genomic level
observations (Q1 2011)
collaboration with
Genomic
Standards
Consortium
Initial joint activities:
- Participate in GSC biodiversity work group
- Participate in GSC conferences
- Aligning Darwin Core and GSC MIxS
- Identifying use cases,
e.g., Microbial Earth Catalog, UNITE
Integrating genomic data in GBIF network
Ref: Genomics data and the GBIF network: potential for integration (April 2011)
http://links.gbif.org/genomics_scoping
Knowledge Organisation Systems
Requirement: a platform to support the development,
maintenance and governance of vocabularies for the biodiversity
community
• GBIF KOS working group white paper “Recommendations
for the use of Knowledge Organisation Systems by GBIF”
(http://links.gbif.org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v1.pdf )
GSC represented in KOS working group (Norman Morrison)
• Appointment of new KOS position at GBIF: Dr Dag
Endresen (germplasm community)
• Special symposium on KOS at TDWG 2011 conference
Grand Ballroom C, Thursday at 09.30
Future activities
Collaboration on Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS)
for standards development
e.g., to support the work of aligning DwC and GSC MIxS
Collaboration on Genomic Observatories (GO) Network:
- data mining the GBIF data cache to understand
coverages and gaps
- promotion of GBIF Data Portal and network for discovery
and access to more specialized data networks and sites
- identifying biodiversity hotspots (DNA, species level)
Opportunity for GSC/GBIF workshop in Q1 2012
- hackathon on aligning DwC and MIxS
Opportunity for GSC to contribute to the Global Biodiversity
Informatics Outlook (GBIO) report in 2012